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H.R. 1696 [109th]: Employee Free Choice Act AFL-CIO

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Jim Gerlach

AFL-CIO is main driver of CARD CHECK.

 Republicans Mike Fitzpatrick and Curt Weldon at AFL-CIO sponsored event

Mike Fitzpatrick and Jim Gerlach and Curt Weldon were co-sponsors of H.R. 1696 (2005-2006) Employee Free Choice Act. This seems to be the smoking gun demonstrating squishiness on key distinguishing issue between Democrats and Republican November 2010.

 Associated Builders and Contractors of Southeast Pennsylvania had contributed and endorsed Jim Gerlach in his first run for Congress. After ABCSEPA learned that Jim Gerlach had co-sponsored EFCA Card Check H.R 1696, they met with him and Jim Gerlach told ABC, in a face to face meeting, that he co-sponsored the bill to placate unions because he didn’t want them to come after him. After that, ABCSEPA asked for its campaign contribution back and has refused to support Jim Gerlach. About 4-5% of Jim Gerlach’s campaign money in 2006 came from AFL-CIO which is the main driver of CARD CHECK.

Weldon Fitzpatrick AFL-CIO

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A Lincoln Fails to Separate Religion and Stateblog

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The Radical and Extreme Free Market Ideology of Abraham Lincoln  Sounds a bit like Glenn Beck, doesn’t he? Or is it that Glenn Beck sounds like Abraham Lincoln? 

“Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.”

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Union Strikers Obstruct Blood Deliveries to Red Cross & SEIU Allentown Eagle Scout

Union Intimidation knows no bounds when even when it is the Red Cross Blood delivery. Please read this carefully and I think you will see that the accusation has validity. Red Cross blood donor deliveries are stopped.

Union Organizers use coercion and intimidation as key part of their Alinsky like strategies. Makes me sick and scared.

In Allentown, Alinsky like SEIU threatens Eagle Scout volunteers.

What happens when EFCA, Card Check, gives the union intimidators more power? The whole country will end up like Philadelphia, a great city with trillions in assets ruined by Democrats.

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Michael Barone: Card Check and the Virginia Governor’s Election

Would RCLMN support a candidate who supported EFCA ( Card Check )? Sen. Arlen Specter has significant Organized Union support. Would RCLMN take a position, like State Republican Committee, on Card Check?

If not, why not?   For example, the three Republican candidates for 6^th District and the likely nominee for Senate, Pat Toomey, as well as, I think, Peg Luksik, oppose eliminating the secret ballot in union accreditation elections and oppose mandatory arbitration which allows Washington Bureaucrat to impose central governments terms and conditions on local employers and control businesses through the unions. Centralized control of business undermines both efficiency and freedom.

What is good for Union Organizers is not always good for workers. Monopoly control of workers and wages benefits a few to the detriment of expanding work force and employing more and more people. And the negative impact of costs and work rules t to the Productive Tax Payer, businesses and individuals,  is nearly incalculable. Read the rest of this entry »

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Socialist Ned Lamont Endorses Joe Sestak

Corliss Lamont

Ned Lamont’s Family Tree. Many Red Apples and does the fruit fall from the tree?  A scion of the chairman  JP Morgan’s financial empire, the Lamont’s evolved into Socialists, very, very rich, very privileged, very elite, very well educated Socialists. Mrs. Lamont does not shop at Wal-mart.

 And now the Socialist Ned Lamont has endorsed Joe Sestak. What can we learn from that? We can learn that Joe Sestak is a very principled true believer in far Left Obama Plan for America. I don’t think Rep. Sestak makes much of a secret of his views. There is no doubt to me that he is sincere and committed to his Leftist Big Government is the solution to most of society’s problems. 

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